The harm of smoking to the stomach
4hw.org: smoking is harmful to health, which is a common sense that even children know. However, many people think that smoking does great harm to the lungs. They don't know that besides hurting the lungs, smoking can also hurt the stomach. So what harm does smoking do to the stomach? Let's have a look!
Let's take a look at the harm of smoking to the stomach and intestines:
Smoking can increase gastric acid secretion, generally 91.5% more than non-smokers, and smoking can inhibit the secretion of sodium bicarbonate from pancreas, resulting in the increase of duodenal acid load and ulcer.
Nicotine in tobacco can reduce the tension of pyloric sphincter, make bile flow back easily, weaken the defense factors of gastric and duodenal mucosa, promote chronic inflammation and ulcer, and delay the healing of original ulcer. In addition, smoking can reduce the tension of the lower esophageal sphincter and easily lead to reflux esophagitis.
For people with gastrointestinal diseases, smoking is enough to make gastrointestinal diseases worse. In the case of gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, the healing of ulcer will slow down and even develop into chronic disease.
Smoking can stimulate the nervous system, accelerate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, make the gastrointestinal tract often tense, resulting in the loss of appetite of smokers. In addition, nicotine can constrict the blood vessels of gastrointestinal mucosa and reduce appetite.
It can be seen that smoking is harmful but not beneficial. You should stay away from cigarettes. So how do smokers quit smoking when they already have an addiction?
What are the tips for quitting smoking?
1. Change the habit of smoking and deliberately make yourself uncomfortable. For example, change the hand to hold the cigarette, change the position of the cigarette in the mouth, do not use the lighter, and change it to match.
2. Set the time and place for smoking. For example, set a time for quitting smoking after meals, try not to smoke at meetings, and only smoke in a fixed place at home.
3. Check the smoking records to see when and where you must smoke. Pay special attention to this time period and place.
4. Train yourself to live without cigarettes. The way is not to smoke immediately when you want to, but to endure for three minutes first. In the meantime, if you can't control it, find something that can replace cigarettes, such as candy bars or distractions.
5. Don't pack cigarettes in the office, at home and on your body. Create an environment where you can't smoke freely.
6. The day before quitting smoking, throw away the rest of cigarettes, lighters, ashtrays and other smoking utensils.
7. In the process of quitting smoking, people usually have symptoms such as fidgety, headache and low spirits, which is the attack of smoking addiction. Most of these symptoms are only temporary symptoms when nicotine is discharged from the body, which can also be regarded as the proof of recovery of health and give a psychological hint to themselves.
8. Most of the relapse starts within 1-2 weeks after quitting smoking. At this time, the body still has a strong sense of dependence on nicotine, but as long as it goes through this period, the symptoms of smoking addiction will gradually disappear, and the road to quitting smoking is on the right track.
In addition, the survey found that the time and place of easy smoking are also regular, such as getting up early, after meals, drinking and coffee, talking with people, having a meeting, being in a bad mood, nervous, making a phone call, relaxing, boring, having no taste in your mouth, watching TV, checking information and writing things, when you want to smoke the most, you can take the above strategies to overcome.